We’re turning into Audibles in here.

Too much frustration. It’s really hard to act like winning this game will be no big deal. I really hope the guys don’t come out tight or trying to do too much.

and I’d have to pretty much agree with a lot of that. I am at MSU doing grad work, so everyone here loathes scUM fans perhaps even more than we do at PSU (though it is definitley more of a lopsided rivalry for them, even with us not having beaten scUM since 1996).

Pretty much anyone I ever see identifying themselves as a scUM fan has been a tool. Interestingly, the fans I’ve actually met AT the games have been some of the nicest fans I’ve met while visiting other stadiums (I should know, I’m an expert. I get interviewed about being a visiting fan http://www.badgerbeat.com/news/article/id/309116 that’s me, the girl, and the dog in the picture) But anyone I see on the street, whether it be around here in East Lansing, or on trips to Ann Arbor or Detroit, if they’re wearing scUM gear, they inevitably act like a tool.

The biggest thing I’ve noticed is that they definitely act like they’re smarter than you (even the fans who never even went to the university), because of the whole “Harvard of the Midwest” BS. Admittedly it is a good school, but one thing I’ve noticed about “quality” of a school is that when it comes down to it, there are people just as intelligent at pretty much any college, some just don’t need to go to a “top tier” school to flaunt it. And when it REALLy comes down to it, the quality of most of the classes at a big university are pretty much the same, since you’re gonna be sitting in a big lecture hall with someone speaking at you for a lot of the classes, whether it is in Boston, Philadelphia, State College, Ann Arbor or elsewhere. It is up to the student to take the initiative to actually study the material and learn it. Sure, in the upper level courses you can find a professor who cares enough to put some individualized attention into some students, but for the majority of people and classes it doesn’t really matter where you go if you have the initiative to learn yourself.

As for Ann Arbor itself, it definitely doesn’t have as good of a “college town” feel because in reality it is a small city that has a university within it, unlike State College, which pretty much exists because of the university. That’s a difference you will always see between schools in established cities vs true college towns.

The other day I saw some guy walking down the street in LA wearing a yellow Michigan shirt that says “go blue”…this is beyond dumb in my opinion

Do I get a prize for being first on this one?

I’ll get the hangs of these internets eventually.